The president began the conversation, Comey wrote , by asking him if he wanted to stay on as FBI Director, "which I found odd because he had already told me twice in earlier conversations that he hoped I would stay, and I had assured him that I meant to".

Australian media reported that Boden was 28 and from Loxton in southern Australia. Khuram Butt, 27, was married with children and lived in Barking, east London , for a number of years. Ikenna Chigbo, in an interview with Britain's Independent Television News, described another of the arrested men as a nice guy who regularly invited neighbors to barbecues and played football and table tennis with them.

Rogers said he was standing by the answer he had given earlier in the hearing when Sen. "I'm not satisfied with 'I do not believe it's appropriate, ' or 'I do not feel I should answer.' I want to understand a legal basis ", King said.

I respect that very much". He told Trump that he could promise "honesty,"he says". I was not his fan. But I'll tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation. "He then said, 'I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go". He says Trump asked him to stay behind in the Oval Office after a meeting with a larger group, and as they stood near a grandfather clock, Trump described Flynn as a good guy who'd been through a lot.

A technical win for the Prime Minister's party but a major personal setback, because at least one Conservative MP will have lost a seat in an election campaign that did not need to happen for three years. "But sometimes people are wrong and sometimes people underestimate the common sense people in this country have". The Conservatives on the other hand have sought to emphasise the past battles within the Labour Party, which saw a no-confidence vote against Mr.

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a new resolution to expand sanctions against North Korea, including officials, entities and a military units handling ballistic missiles with both China and Russian Federation voting in favour of the restrictions put forward by Washington.

She added: "I've been clear talking about a second independence referendum in Scotland at this time". "That's why a choice, not now, but at the right time, is important". According to the SurveyMonkey poll for the Scottish Sun on Sunday , the SNP are now on 39 per cent of the vote, well below the 50 per cent vote share they received at the 2015 General Election and the 46.5 per cent vote share in the constituency vote in last year's elections to the Scottish Parliament.

Qatar has denied the accusation. But Qatar has also always been accused by its Gulf neighbors and Egypt of supporting extremist groups. Trump on Tuesday hinted that the "hard line" with Qatar was partly a result of his tour of the region in May.

Afterward, Coats told other officials that Trump had asked him to get Comey to back off the investigation of Flynn and other campaign associates - but the intelligence official declined. Neither would directly answer that query. "What I'm not willing to do is share information I think ought to be protected in an opening hearing". "I'm not going to discuss the specifics of any conversations with the president of the United States, " Rogers said.

Trump's campaign committee, based at Trump Tower in NY, is now led by Michael Glassner, a former deputy campaign manager, and John Pence, a nephew of Vice President Mike Pence, the Post said. Schiff said requests for immunity are not something that his panel would entertain "until far later, if at all", and that they would need to consult with Bob Mueller, the special counsel appointed by the Department of Justice to investigate the matter, before taking action.

Following attacks in Manchester and London that killed 29 people, voters are anxiously aware of the threat the country faces from worldwide terrorism, and demanding to know why authorities failed to apprehend suspects whose extremist leanings were well-known.

The rationale is that a judge will approach the case pragmatically and will not be affected by the emotional testimony and "appalling" details behind Roy's death. " You need to do it, Conrad " Carter texted him on the morning of 12 July, according to records presented by the Bristol County District Attorney's Office.

Sanders' son, Levi, endorsed Murphy in the race. "Thank you to all those across New Jersey who voted for this great victory!" she wrote. Polls have closed in New Jersey's primary races to replace unpopular term-limited Republican Gov.

The semi-official ISNA news agency said all entrance and exit gates at parliament were closed and that lawmakers and reporters were ordered to remain in place inside the chamber. Some reports indicate one of the attackers in parliament had explosive belt on him. The attack on the parliament happened when at least four gunmen, disguised as women, entered the visitors' hall of the building, opening fire on the security guards there.

In a statement , police said: "Formal identification has not yet taken place, however Mr Thomas' next of kin have been informed of this development". She says: "When I went to England, he was a bit more rigid, but not so much". Le Parisien daily newspaper named the dead man as 36-year-old Sebastian Belanger. The second victim of the London Bridge terror attack to be named was 32-year-old Londoner James McMullan, whose family revealed his identity ahead of official confirmation.

President Donald Trump delivers the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy amid controversy after his firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation director James Comey. He said that lots of people wanted my job and, given the abuse I had taken during the previous year, he would understand if I wanted to walk away. "I replied that he should give that careful thought because it might create a narrative that we were investigating him personally, which we weren't, and because it was ...

Cyclone Mora is also expected to affect a few Indian states, particularly West Bengal and Odisha. The airports of Chittagong and Cox's Bazar have also been closed; Cox's Bazar indefinitely and Chittagong's Shah Amanat International Airport until at least 2 p.m.

Speaking in Berlin, Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said he condemned terrorist attacks wherever they occur, but said there was no evidence that Saudis were behind the attack in Tehran , adding he did not know who was responsible. By choosing the burial site of Iran's revered revolutionary leader, and the national legislative forum, the attackers picked highly symbolic targets.

It quoted Pirhossein Kolivand, the head of Iran's emergency department. Khomeini led the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Western-backed shah to become Iran's first supreme leader until his death in 1989. The body of a terrorist, at background left, lies on the ground while police control the scene at the shine of late Iranian revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran , Iran, Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

Experts blamed the austerity drive that has meant tuition fees, and therefore university incomes, have been frozen for five years. NTU's ascendancy is also best understood as part of a recurrent global trend - "universities with a heavy technological focus have made consistent improvements and, in many cases, are gaining ground", QS added.

Khan had said on Sunday morning that people would see an increased police presence on the streets of the capital and should not be alarmed by that. And his remarkable win in May of previous year - six weeks before Britain voted to exit the European Union - followed a bitterly contested and frequently ugly mayoral race which centered firmly on Khan's religion and family background rather than his politics.

US President Donald Trump praised the action against Qatar , but stressed the need for Gulf unity. "Leaders point to Qatar - look!" Trump had previously appeared to side with the Saudis and other nations against Qatar in a series of tweets on Tuesday.

The real story is that Moon is far, far less hawkish on North Korea than Washington is. The unnamed official said that the assessment could take at least a year, or perhaps even two, noting that a similar evaluation for a THAAD deployment in Guam had taken 23 months, Yonhap reported.

USA investigators believe Russian hackers breached Qatar's state news agency and planted a fake report that contributed to the crisis , according to U.S. They accused Qatar of supporting terrorism, an assertion that Doha had dismissed. However, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert downplayed this Tuesday.

A number of countries said they would take measures, such as cut air and sea traffic, suspend banking transactions, eject Qatari diplomats and order Qatari citizens to leave. But Qatar's Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Than, said: "There is no single evidence that the Qatar government is supporting radical Islamists".

A federal judge in Chicago says IL isn't in compliance with court orders to promptly pay health-care bills for low-income and other vulnerable groups even as the state heads into a third year without a budget. The plaintiffs conceded this point, but said they believe the state has not properly interpreted its responsibilities under the law in excluding the Medicaid MCOs from the core services it has chosen to fund, including state and public worker pensions.

Comey will reveal that during a January 27 dinner with Trump, the president said, "I need loyalty, I expect loyalty", and he will also confirm that Trump urged him to "let go" of the investigation into ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

Recall that Zaghba and his two other accomplices were gunned down by cops after ramming a van they drove into pedestrians on London Bridge and then slashing and stabbing people seven people to death and wounding dozens others in an incident that happened close to Borough Market .

Police identified the second attacker as 30-year-old Rachid Redouane , also known as Rachid Elkhdar, who claimed to have both Moroccan and Libyan roots and worked as a pastry chef in Ireland, where he had lived in the past five years as well the east London suburb of Dagenham.

Noriega was a military dictator of Panama from 1983 to 1989, when he was removed from power by the United States during the invasion of Panama. In January this year, Noriega was granted house arrest as he prepared for surgery. He was paid millions for his assistance to the US throughout Latin America, including acting as a liaison to former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, the AP said.

The referendum on whether to secede from Iraq will be held in the three governorates that make up the Kurdish region and in the areas that are disputed by the Kurdish and Iraqi governments but are now under Kurdish military control. Ammar al-Hakim especially warned the Kurds against any move to annex oil-rich Kirkuk. Is: Do you want an independent Kurdistan? A senior Kurdish official, Hoshiyar Zebari, told Reuters in April the expected "yes" vote would strengthen the Kurds' hand in ...

Trump said, arguing that his visit to Saudi Arabia was "already paying off". "Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!" he continued later. French President Emmanuel Macron called for Gulf unity, saying he was ready to back "all initiatives to encourage calm". France is calling on Qatar to answer its Gulf neighbors' questions in order to find a solution to the current diplomatic crisis.

Trump on Tuesday tweeted about the Justice Department - the agency Sessions heads - saying that he wanted a "much tougher version" of a " travel ban " and "not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted" to the Supreme Court last week.

Rachid Redouane, 30, claimed to be Moroccan and Libyan, and used a different last name as well as a different birthdate, the police said . "Work is ongoing to understand more about them, their connections and whether they were assisted or supported by anyone else", Metropolitan Police assistant commissioner Mark Rowley said in a statement .

Trump and Khan, the son of Pakistani immigrants and the first Muslim elected as London's mayor, have been at odds since Khan denounced as "ignorant" Trump's campaign pledge to impose a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. We have a special relationship and we should work closely with the Americans. "We aren't going to allow anybody, whether it's Donald Trump or anybody else, to divide our communities", Khan said.

The Saturday attack was claimed by the Islamic State and follows the May 22 suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena by Salman Abedi, killing 22 people. Security has become the number one issue and both main parties issued statements on Tuesday portraying their own positions on policing and intelligence as the most robust.

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One of the assailants later blew himself up inside, according to a statement issued by Iran's state news agency, IRNA. Six attackers were also reportedly killed. Saudi Arabia has itself been a target of numerous lethal attacks by IS affiliates in the Arabian Peninsula, who see the kingdom's Western-allied leadership as heretics.

The BBC's Rana Rahimpour says Iran has been battling the terrorist group across the region. In images circulating in Iranian media , gunmen were seen holding rifles near the windows of parliament. The second attack, at the shrine of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, came within an hour of the assault on the legislature. The Kremlin said on Wednesday the attacks underlined the need for countries to pool efforts to fight terrorism, something it said meant working closely with Muslim nations.

The testimony will be Comey's first public comments since he was sacked. It also raises the specter of precisely how much influence Christie still has with President Trump and if he may be showing up with a White House job during the next inevitable shake-up after leaving the New Jersey Governor's mansion.

House Speaker Paul Ryan , R-Wis., said Wray seemed like "the flawless kind of person" for the important job. Ryan said he favored a "career person" and that Wray "certainly seems to fit that bill". That potential bombshell testimony - in which Comey also may address whether Trump urged him to halt or ease up on an investigation into former national security advisor Michael Flynn and his ties to Russian Federation - takes place before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The official said that given the turmoil, Qatar's leaders may try to reassure U.S. central command that Al-Udeid operations are secure to keep Trump from backing dramatic Saudi action. Turkey is a key ally of Qatar and is setting up a military base in the country, which also hosts the largest American air base in the Middle East. ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates warned on Wednesday that anyone showing sympathy with Qatar over sanctions imposed by its Gulf neighbors could face up to 15 ...

Separately, gunmen attacked the Imam Khomeini Mausoleum in Tehran, opening fire on people inside and wounding a number of them. Iranian security officials have not said who might have been behind the attacks, although state media called the assailants "terrorists".

Justin Bieber was moved to tears yesterday (June 4) while remembering the victims of the May 22 bombings at Ariana Grande's concert in Manchester, England , which killed more than 20 and left dozens more injured. Rachel Jea, 32, said she was at Grande's previous Manchester concert and felt it was important to attend Sunday's show to regain trust after the bombing.

Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of the FBI", Trump tweeted. Trump called Wray "a man of impeccable credentials" and offered no more information about the selection, ending the tweet by saying, "Details to follow".

Assailants armed with assault rifles and suicide vests attacked two of the country's landmarks. All four attackers were killed by security forces, Fars reported. Soon after the parliament attack, a suicide bomber and other assailants targeted the shrine of Ayatollah Khomeini located just outside Tehran , according to Iran's official state broadcaster.

At a May 18 news conference, Trump twice said "no" when asked if he tried to halt the probe. Then Trump himself acknowledged to NBC News that he fired Comey in part because of the Russian Federation investigation. "He then said, 'I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go". President Donald Trump is ignoring questions about James Comey's prepared testimony before the Senate Intelligence committee.